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2026 Winter Olympics (Milan - Cortina, Feb 6-20)

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OHSportsFan said:
Well, anybody watching downhill skiing live? I won’t spoil it.


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Yeah, that was ugly. Sad way to end

Biennial rant about how shitty the NBC coverage is. Announcers can’t muster even the slightest bit of excitement for non-Americans. Cutting away from coverage of an event before it’s done.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Yeah, that was ugly. Sad way to end

Biennial rant about how shitty the NBC coverage is. Announcers can’t muster even the slightest bit of excitement for non-Americans. Cutting away from coverage of an event before it’s done.
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Not even for the ‘excitement‘ of showing whether the final few skiers are able to knock an American out of a gold medal.

The media will spend more time on somebody who didn’t last 15 seconds on the course than they will on the gold medalist. But Breezy will have that gold medal forever.
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BB73 said:
Not even for the ‘excitement‘ of showing whether the final few skiers are able to knock an American out of a gold medal.


The media will spend more time on somebody who didn’t last 15 seconds on the course than they will on the gold medalist. But Breezy will have that gold medal forever.
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Exactly what I was watching. From watching those last ~10 skiers on Peacock, I understand now that there was no realistic chances that any of them were going to beat her time, but they gave zero explanation of any of it. Just "Oh, she's probably going to win the gold" and then cut away. I was completely lost seeing online that there were still skiers to go but cutting away and saying she was going to win the gold.

Plus:
European skier has slight issue and is .5 seconds back at the midway point -- announcers: "Oh, there's no coming back from that" and then talks about Lindsey Vonn for the rest of the run. European skier finishes 4th with barely a mention.
Random American skier is 1.5 seconds at the midway point -- announcers: "Look at Bella go! She's just such an intense skier! Amazing!" Then she finishes 23rd out of the 24 skiers that had made it all the way down at that point. :slappy:

I wish there was another way to watch this. NBC sucks.
 
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We've been Olympic junkies for years now. But you're correct, seem to lose interest unless there's an American competing. Ice skating certainly. Even though ill-advised, applaud Vonn for giving it the old college try. One trains for years to get to that level, and when the time gets here, a competitor will do any and everything to get to the medal ceremony. Wife was quite a good GS skier. So we watch that, whomever goes downhill. Personally, I prefer biathalon, as was actually a useful event (Finns, Swedes, and Swiss had their armies ski and then shoot for real). But my favorite event is the zamboni. We don't get enough camera time, when that machine sweeps the ice to make it easier for the skaters to compete. Watching those downhillers speed down that mountain, reminds me of the 85 year old guy driving on a busy street. Just keep driving until you hit something. Going 80 mph down a mountain without a bunch of steel wrapped around you? Please. PS, hope Vonn was OK. Had seen rescue sleds certainly, but a helicopter was insane.
 
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